KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 — PKR said today that Nurul Izzah Anwar will be released after the police record the Lembah Pantai MP’s statement later in a sedition investigation over her speech in Parliament.
PKR communications chief Fahmi Fadzil said Nurul Izzah was taken this morning to her home to collect something related to the sedition investigation after the opposition MP was detained overnight at the Jinjang police station.
“The police informed lawyers that they will not remand Nurul Izzah further after her statement is taken at the Dang Wangi police headquarters later,” Fahmi said in a statement.
Nurul Izzah, who is also PKR vice-president, was detained last night in a sedition investigation for questioning the Federal Court’s decision to jail her father, Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, for sodomy, when she read out parts of his speech in Parliament last Tuesday.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said in a statement yesterday that Nurul Izzah was arrested under the Sedition Act 1948 for making “contemptuous remarks that those in the judiciary system had sold their souls to the devil”.
The last MP to be charged with sedition for parliamentary speech was Barisan Nasional MP Mark Koding in 1982, when he questioned the existence of Chinese and Tamil schools and the use of both languages on signboards.
Koding was subsequently convicted for suggesting the amendment of Article 152 of the Federal Constitution that states that the Malay language is the national language.
